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Bio as of April 2009
Ian Bird
is currently the LHC Computing Grid Project Leader, and has
line management responsibility in the CERN IT Department for
Physics Computing activities.
He joined CERN in 2002 to participate in the LCG
project as Grid Deployment Area manager with responsibility
for building up and deploying the LCG service.
When the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project
began in 2004 he also took on the role of EGEE Operations
Manager responsible for deploying, operating, and supporting
the EGEE grid infrastructure.
Prior to joining CERN he spent 6 years at Jefferson Lab in
Virginia,
USA,
where he was head of the computing group and responsible for
all aspects of computing for the laboratory.
His background and Ph.D. are in particle physics,
having spent many years coordinating the software and
computing for the CERN muon experiments studying nucleon
structure functions and later in the Nomad neutrino
experiment.
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